Human Rights Day: December 10, 2017

Human Rights Day marks the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by United Nations (UN) members on December 10, 1948.​A Canadian, John Peters Humphrey, was one of the authors of the Declaration.

​During the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development , Member States agreed to launch a process to develop a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs) to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), whose achievement period concludes in 2015.

In July 2014, an Open Working Group of the General Assembly drafted and presented to the General Assembly a proposal for sustainable development goals.

The SDGs address all three dimensions of sustainable development (environmental, economic and social) and are coherent with and integrated into the United Nations global development agenda beyond 2015. The envisaged SDGs have a time horizon of 2015 to 2030.

Towards Full Inclusion of Disabled Persons in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

OutcomeThe importance of inclusion of disabled persons to the development agenda is recognized once more, and the shared ideas and discussions contribute to promoting inclusion of disabled persons further in the post-2015 development framework.

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)